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Kleopatra GPGME: Reported assert on exit
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While not important for VSD there have been reports for a while that exiting kleopatra with active asserts results in an assert being hit: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450824 and if there is no assert a null pointer deref would follow some lines later.

To me it seems that the code asserts if the context is not found. This is indeed a sign that something incorrect is happening here. I don't know. I can't reproduce it by just closing kleopatra with running jobs active. Since it seems to be only on shutdown it would be ok for me to just fix the symptom and Return if the context is not found but I would prefer to understand how this can happen.

Event Timeline

aheinecke triaged this task as Normal priority.Aug 29 2023, 9:09 AM
aheinecke created this task.

Ingo do you know if we have fixed this?

I haven't looked into it and I think this has really low priority. I'm pretty sure it's a problem with a the out-of-correct-order destruction of (static?) objects on shutdown. If I remember correctly then it is triggered by the DeviceInfoWatcher.

aheinecke lowered the priority of this task from Normal to Low.Dec 11 2023, 1:04 PM

Ack, I was not sure if we fixed it and forgot to add the commit here.

ikloecker added a subscriber: ikloecker.

This is the full GPGME log from how I can reproduce this now on windows with a KF6 build. If I repeat it the last lines look similar before the assert.